Officials Mull Redoing Vote
In Some Parts of Indonesia

By

Jeremy Wagstaff Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 17, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian election officials are investigating whether to repeat polls in at least one province after opposition allegations of fraud by the ruling party. The move might not affect the outcome of the election much, observers say, but it adds another cloud of uncertainty to the country's first free election in decades.

Election observers visiting some of Indonesia's remoter provinces are confirming early reports that while polls on the main islands of Java and Bali were largely free and fair, those on...